Presentation: "Betting the Company (Literally) on a Graph Database"

QCon is an "enterprise" software development conference. But companies often start as two people working out of a living room before they become "enterprise". This is the story of one such company and its early decision to build entirely on a graph database.

The Thingdom was a social network around products, and it was built on Node.js and Neo4j. Come hear why we chose to build on a graph database, how we did it, and what we learned.

This talk will be technical, but all relevant concepts will be explained. If you're interested in exploring graph databases, you should have a much better understanding of how to work with them through this talk.

Aseem Kishore, Developer at FiftyThree

Aseem Kishore is a developer at FiftyThree, the company behind the award-winning iPad app Paper. Aseem was previously co-founder of The Thingdom, a social network around products, before its acquisition by FiftyThree.

Both The Thingdom and FiftyThree's next product are built on Node.js and Neo4j, and Aseem is the co-author and maintainer of node-neo4j, the open-source Neo4j REST API client library for Node.js.

Outside of work, Aseem lives in NYC, plays jazz trombone, and loves to rock climb and play ultimate frisbee.